JAMES BOND
NEWS 2014

24 December
2014StuntmanRichard 'Dickie' Graydon has passed away at
the age of 92. Dickie was part of the stunt team on many James
Bond films and most notably doubled for both George Lazenby in
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); and Roger Moore
in Moonraker (1979), both times atop a cable car in two
of the series' most hair-raising sequences.

Credited with
appearances in You Only Live Twice (1967) as 'Astronaut
(Russian Spacecraft)' and 'Fransisco the Fearless' in
Octopussy (1983), he was also part of the stunt team on
From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964),
Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967),
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), For Your Eyes Only
(1979) and A View To A Kill (1985).

In addition to
doubling George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(1969), Graydon also appeared uncredited on screen as
Draco's driver.

Also an
experienced horseman, Graydon worked on many other films as
stunt co-ordinator and horsemaster including The Charge of
the Light Brigade (1968) and Don't Look Now (1973).

LEFT:
Richard Graydon with George Lazenby on location in Portugal
during the filming of On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(1969)

DECEMBER 2014 - SPECTRE is announced as the new James Bond
film

4 December
2014

SPECTRE will be the title of the 24th official James
Bond film, its makers have announced.

Director Sam Mendes revealed the title at a launch event at
Pinewood Studios, where principal photography is due to begin on
Monday 8 December.

Daniel Craig will play 007 for the fourth time in the film, to
be released in the UK on 23 October 2015, and worldwide on 6
November 2015.

Other principal cast members were also announced at launch event,
which was beamed around the world.

Dynamite
Entertainment, a leading publisher of English language comic books and
graphic novels, is proud to announce their partnership with Ian
Fleming Publications Ltd. (IFPL), the company that owns and
administers the literary copyright of Ian Fleming's published works,
including his fourteen James Bond books.

Under their agreement, negotiated by Jonny Geller of Curtis Brown,
Dynamite has been granted worldwide rights to publish comic books,
digital comics, and graphic novels starring 007, Fleming's iconic
secret agent will re-live the exploits that have thrilled and
captivated fans for over half a century in fresh visual adaptations of
the classic Bond stories...

Ian Fleming Publications
Ltd., The Ian Fleming Estate, the Orion Publishing Group, and
HarperCollins US and Canada are delighted to announce that international
bestselling and award-winning writer Anthony Horowitz is at work on an
official new James Bond novel. Currently dubbed Project One, the
novel is due for worldwide release on 8th September 2015.

The new book by Horowitz
– a lifelong fan of Ian Fleming – will be set in the 1950s and will be
unique among the modern James Bond novels, in that a section will contain
previously unseen material written by Fleming to which Horowitz has had
exclusive access.

Nikki van der Zyl’s contribution to the early James Bond
movies is legendary. Her revoicing of many of the principal (and
smaller part) actresses was demanding in the extreme and her
professionalism was admired by all who worked with her. Only
rarely in film production are the voices of actors deemed to be
unsuitable in terms of clarity, diction or accent, but
throughout the early days of the Bond series actresses were cast
for their visual suitability rather than their mastery of the
English language. As a consequence the voices of several ‘Bond
Girls’ were judged to have insufficient clarity for world
markets and Nikki was selected for the highly specialised task
of re-voicing them.

American actor Richard Kiel who played 'Jaws' in The
Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) has died
in California aged 74.

The Kiel family issued the following statement:
It is with very heavy hearts that we announce that Richard has
passed away, just three days shy of his 75th birthday. Richard
had an amazing joy for life and managed to live every single day
to the fullest. Though most people knew of him through his
screen persona, those who were close to him knew what a kind and
generous soul he was. His family was the most important thing in
his life and we are happy that his last days were spent
surrounded by family and close friends. Though his passing was
somewhat unexpected, his health had been declining in recent
years. It is nice to think that he can, once again, stand tall
over us all.

With love,
The Kiel Family

AUGUST 2014 - Iris Rose (1930-2014)

007 MAGAZINE is sad
to report the passing of Iris Rose on August 12th 2014. While her
filmography below speaks volumes, her time working in the production
department on the James Bond films at Pinewood Studios made her quite
literally a legend among her colleagues in the industry. Iris was
simply the best!

George Lazenby – it's a name that ignites debate; fan
favourite or failure, everybody seems to have an opinion.

Out of his depth by his own admission, he took to James
Bond as only he knew how – with no compromises. Always on the fringe with
a lifelong distrust of authority, George walked away from the most famous
role in film history. It cost him big time and the stigma has never left
him.

Through a
gunbarrel darkly!GRAHAM RYE reports on the BOND IN MOTION exhibition at The London
Film Museum in Covent Garden, and discovers that 007’s dark
materials are a little too dark to entirely please his discerning
eye!

The 16th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography was awarded
to Jon Gilbert for his groundbreaking work about the author of
the James Bond novels, ‘Ian Fleming: The Bibliography’. Jon
Gilbert's opus magnum covers every aspect of Ian Fleming’s
writings, and it provides his readers with all there is to
possibly know about Ian Fleming and his works.

14 March
2014
Samuel John Peffer known as 'Peff' has died at the age of 92.
Peff was a British commercial artist who designed film posters,
paperback book covers and illustrations to accompany the release
of many early home videos.

Among his best
known works were the four covers he painted for PAN Books in the
late 1950s. His covers for the paperback editions of Ian
Fleming's CASINO ROYALE, MOONRAKER, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and
DR.NO set the standard for the colourful pulp-detective style
illustrations which continued into the early 1960s. Originally
starting out in film advertising he returned to the industry in
the 1970s when the fashion for painted covers died out. He
painted the posters for many low-budget expoitation films before
his retirement in 1985.

JANUARY 2014 - Producers Guild of America honour James Bond producers

19 January
2014EON Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson were the
recipients of the highly prestigious David O. Selznick
Achievement Award in Motion Pictures, a trophy which recognizes
a Producer’s body of work in motion pictures, and is seen as one
of the most important awards that can be bestowed on a film
Producer. The award was presented by Daniel Craig at the 25th
Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards ceremony, held at the
Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

EON Productions, owned and controlled by the Broccoli/Wilson
family, is the U.K. based production company that produces the
James Bond films. Wilson, Broccoli and EON have also co-produced
and co-financed several successful theatrical productions that
have played in London’s West End and on Broadway, including
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, A Steady Rain, Chariots of Fire and
the Tony winning musical Once.

Wilson,
Broccoli and EON also are involved in several independent film
projects including executive producing A Silent Storm,
starring Damian Lewis and Andrea Riseborough, directed by
Corinna Villari-McFarlane.

"We’re honoured to be associated with the legendary David O.
Selznick and delighted to be receiving this award along with its
previous recipients," Wilson and Broccoli said in a joint
statement.